xii, 323 pages ; 21 cm

Translation of: Jesus Cristo libertador ; Petrópolis : Editora Vozes, 1972

Includes bibliographical references

1. The history of the history of Jesus -- the answer of imperturbable faith -- answers in the era of criticism -- how de we know that Jesus existed? -- there is not, nor can there be, a single biography of Jesus -- the primacy of the Christ of faith over the historical Jesus, of Biblical history over history, of interpretation over bare fact -- the return to the historical Jesus: Jesusology and Christology -- the continu9ity between Jesus and Christ: indirect Christology -- Christological concentration and reduction: theologians of the death of God -- the Christology of Word, silence, and faltering speech -- other contemporary Christological positions -- the philosophical-transcendental interpretation of Jesus -- The cosmic-evolutionist interpretation of Jesus -- The interpretation of Jesus wit the categories of depth psychology -- the secular, socio-critical interpretation of Jesus -- the experience of Christ among modern youth

2. How can we know Christ? The hermeneutic problem -- the hermeneutics of historical criticism -- form criticism (formgeschichte) -- tradition criticism (traditionsgeschichte) -- redaction criticism (redaktionsgeschichte) -- existential hermeneutics -- the hermeneutic circle and its meaning -- the hermeneutics of political existence -- the hermeneutics of salvation history -- toward a Christology in Latin America -- the primacy of the anthropological element over the ecclesiastical -- the primacy of the utopian element over the factual -- the primacy of the critical element over the dogmatic -- the primacy of orthopraxis over orthodoxy -- Conclusion: beginning with Jesus Christ, to speak in silence -- 3. What did Jesus Christ really want? -- to comprehend the answers we must understand the questions -- Jesus preaches an absolute meaning for our world -- an old utopia is being realized -- the kingdom of God is not a territory but a new order -- the kingdom of God is not merely spiritual -- a feeling of expectation has grown among the people -- Conclusion: he took on our deepest longings -- 4. Jesus Christ, liberator of the human condition -- the kingdom of God implies a revolution in our thinking and acting -- Jesus Christ, the liberator of oppressed conscience -- the comportment of the new person -- the kingdom of God implies a revolution of the human world -- Conclusion: the theological relevance of the attitudes of the historical Jesus

5. Jesus, a person of extraordinary good sense, creative imagination, and originality -- Jesus, a person of extraordinary good sense and sound reason -- Jesus is prophet and master: but he is different -- Jesus does not want to say something new merely for effect and whatever the cost -- Jesus wants us to understand: he appeals to sound reason -- Jesus does not paint the world better or worse than it is -- all that is authentically human is seen in Jesus: anger and joy, goodness and toughness, friendship, sorrow, and temptation -- Jesus, a person of extraordinary creative imagination -- Jesus, a person who has the courage to say: I -- Jesus never used the word "obedience" -- Jesus does not have prefabricated notions -- was Jesus a liberal? -- the originality of Jesus -- Conclusion: the theological relevance of the comportment of Jesus -- 6. The meaning of the death of Jesus -- the prosecution of Jesus -- the popularity of Jesus -- Jesus, one who disconcerts -- Jesus, on who provokes a radical crisis -- the use all available means against Jesus -- Jesus is condemned as a "blasphemer" and a guerrilla -- "having loved ... he loved ... to the end" -- the faith and hope of Jesus -- Did Jesus expect a violent death? -- the meaningless has a secret meaning

7. Resurrection: the realization of a human utopia -- the grass did not grow on the sepulcher of Jesus -- what does modern exegesis say about the resurrection of Jesus? -- the empty sepulcher did not give rise to faith in the resurrection -- the apparitions of Christ: the origin of faith in the resurrection -- the resurrection elucidates all -- the resurrection rehabilitated Jesus before the world -- with the resurrection, the end of the world has already begun -- the resurrection revealed that Jesus died for our sins -- Jesus' death and resurrection give origin to the church -- the anthropological relevance of the resurrection of Jesus -- for the Christian, there is no longer utopia but only topia -- God did not substitute a new world for the old one: he makes the Old new -- the goal of God's path: the human being as body -- resurrection in death? -- 8. Who really was Jesus of Nazareth? -- the sovereignty of Jesus: indirect Christology -- astonishment: the beginnings of philosophy and Christology -- negative Christology -- positive Christology -- Jesusology: how did Jesus understand Himself? -- the resurrection of Jesus: direct Christology -- to the Palestinian Christian community, Jesus in the Christ, the Son the Man, etc. -- to the Jewish Christians of the diaspora, Jesus is the new Adam and Lord -- to the Hellenist Christians, Jesus is the Savior, the Head of the cosmos, the only begotten of God, and God Himself -- Conclusion: it is not enough to give titles to Jesus and call Him Lord, Lord!

9. The Christological process continues: the accounts of Jesus' infancy -- theology or history? -- faith seeks to comprehend -- Matthew and Luke: Jesus is the omega point of history, the Messiah, the awaited Son of David, the Son of God -- Joseph and the virgin's conception of Jesus? -- Where was Jesus born: Bethlehem or Nazareth? -- who are the shepherds in the fields of Bethlehem? -- Matthew: Jesus is the new Moses and the definitive liberator -- What do the magi and the star mean? -- the last liberator (Jesus) is like the first (Moses) -- Conclusion: the birth -- the same truth yesterday and today -- 10. Only a God could be so human! Jesus, the man who is God -- a human God and a divine human -- we cannot speak about Jesus, but only with Jesus as our starting point -- a difficult tension -- God became a human being so that human beings could become God -- the entire human being was assumed by the eternal word -- Chalcedon: a formula of reconciliation between duality and unity -- Jesus: the human being who is God, and the God who is human -- the sinlessness of Jesus: He conquered the sinful human condition from within -- we are all destined to be images and likenesses of Jesus Christ

11. Where can we find the resurrected Christ today? -- Christianity does not live on nostalgia, but celebrates a presence -- understanding the world in terms of its future already manifest -- ways in which the resurrected Christ in present today -- the cosmic Christ: "history is pregnant with Christ" -- is Christ of importance to the earth alone or to the whole cosmos? -- the human being: Christ's greatest sacrament -- the presence of Christ in anonymous Christians -- the presence of Christ in avowed Christians -- the church: the primordial sacrament of the presence of the Lord -- Conclusion: the pride of the cup is in the drink, its humility in the serving -- 12. What name can we call Jesus Christ today? -- in Christology, it is not sufficient to know what others have known -- faith in Christ cannot be reduced to Archaic formulas -- faith does not permit and ideologization of Jesus' titles -- the bridge between Christ and us -- elements of a Christology in secular language -- Christ as the omega point of evolution, the homo revelatus, and the future as present -- Christ as conciliation of opposites, divine Milieu, and a tremendous high -- Christ the dissenter, the reformer, the revolutionary, the liberator -- Jesus Christ, archetype of the most perfect individualism -- Jesus Christ, our elder brother -- Jesus, God of human beings and God with us -- Conclusion: Christ, the memory and critical consciousness of humanity

13. Jesus Christ and Christianity: reflections of the essence of Christianity -- Christianity is as extensive as the world -- the full humanization of the human being presupposes the humanization of God -- the Christic structure and the mystery of the triune God -- Christianity: a response to a proposal -- the ch7urch as a special institutional articulation of Christianity -- Jesus Christ, "All in All" -- Conclusion: the hope and future of Jesus Christ -- Epilogue: a Christological view form the periphery -- relevance of the social setting and liberation for Christology -- two levels of social awareness and their corresponding liberation Christologies -- a "sacramental" articulation of liberation Christology -- a socio-analytical articulation of liberation Christology -- comprehending the historical Jesus in terms of liberation -- the liberation relevance of the historical Jesus -- the kingdom of God: the utopia of absolute liberation and its anticipation in history -- Jesus' praxis: a liberation in process -- conversion: the demand imposed by God's liberation -- the death of Jesus: the price for God's liberation -- Jesus' resurrection: the foreshadowed breakthrough of definitive liberation -- the following of Jesus as the way to actualize his liberation -- the importance of liberation Christology for worldwide Christological faith

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